FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA” DATE:AUGUST 24, 2014 “BELIEVE IT OR NOT”, WHAT I SAW YESTERDAY IS FOREVER ETCHED INTO MY MIND! Yesterday, the Balama Blazers and I along with 2 of my best guards, left Balama at 5a.m. so that Hanna Gilman, RN student from Seattle, WA, could catch the afternoon plane to begin her journey back to the USA. First on the agenda was beach time for
FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA” DATE:AUGUST 16, 2014 BUNNY AND THE 3 BLAZERS BUSIER THAN 4 BEAVERS IN A SPRING FLOOD! Our internet is down completely, so appreciate that we had to drive 60km (30 miles) in order to send this today. Wasn’t a huge sacrifice since an ICE CREAM PARLOUR now opened in Montepuez, so we all decided to “sacrifice” and have lunch at this wonderful
FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA” DATE:AUGUST 9, 2014 MOTORBIKE MINISTRY SAVES LIVES On Thursday morning, I was in Rovuma checking on 3 new baby goats, when Salvador, our 13 year old orphan from Nacala village 3 miles (5km) away, walked up to the goat pens accompanied by Pastor Salazar, his foster Father. His badly infected and painful hand was so swollen that it resembled a rubber glove full
FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA” DATE:AUGUST 2, 2014 BUNNY AND THE BLAZERS FORGING AHEAD HAPPY doesn’t come close to describing how our team felt when we completed the corn buying on Wed.! Our warehouse is “full, full” as our Moz. workers put it (one of the few English words they know). When you walk through the double doors of our corn warehouse, you are totally surrounded on 3
FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA” DATE: JULY 26, 2014 BUNNY NOTES: Running to the USA and returning after only 8 days made it a wild trip and exhausting trip for sure. But it was good to be able to max out my time with my parent’s, and help them as much as I could while there. My Mom was admitted to the Eagle Lake Hospital in the
FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA” DATE: JULY 5, 2014 BLIND WIDOW MEETS JESUS BUT HER 4 ORPHANS ARE TAKEN IN BY SISTER WITH 7 OF HER OWN! God made some women to thrive on caring for children. Juliana is one such woman and I take my hat off to her. Ali is the tall boy to the far right in the picture above. The three little girls in front
FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA” DATE: JUNE 29, 2014 MEET MONICA, A 4 YEAR OLD WITH A BIG HEART! Monica was born with an enlarged heart on May 7, 2011, but that has never slowed her down. She is our “poster child” for PERSISTENCE AND PERSEVERANCE. Her small size never slows her down. She talks, sings, marches in with our Youth Choir, and plays with the intelligence of
FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA” DATE: JUNE 21, 2014 MEET KATIE POLCYN, NEW STAFF MEMBER FROM SEGUIN, TEXAS. KATIE LOVES THE KIDS, (THE FOUR LEGGED KIND AND THE TWO LEGGED KIND.) MEET HANNAH GILMAN, THE NEWEST SUMMER STAFF MEMBER. AS YOU CCAN SEE, HANNAH IS ALREADY AT HOME WITH THE CHILDREN, WHO LOVE HER VERY MUCH. SHE SAYS THE FEELING IS MUTUAL. Hannah is seen here with
FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA” DATE: JUNE 14, 2014 URGENT PRAYER NEEDED AS MOTHER FORCES RELEASE OF CHILDREN REMOVED FROM HER HOME On Friday afternoon, we received word that the mentally deficient mother of the 2 little boys, Lindo and Caneto, showed up at the orphanage in Pemba with her brother, demanding the children. Since they are not orphans, the boys could not be held if the family
FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA” DATE: JUNE 7, 2014 EIGHT MONTHS OLD AND ONLY 6 POUNDS This baby boy was brought to our door by his mother on Wed., June 4th (names withheld at this time). The mother told us her breast milk had dried up, and they had little food for her and the other 6 children in the family, so she decided to walk the 10